[QUOTE="Dracunos"]But the other hand is the Oblivion style RPG, which is still pretty much in it's infancy. I really feel like this new RPG/FPS hybrid genre has a ton of potential.. There have been games from Deus Ex to Dark Messiah, to Elder Scrolls, to Morrowind.. It just goes to show the amazing amount of variation available for this style of game, much more than those top down RPG templates, which can be very fun, and much more strategic with certain spells than those RPG/FPS hybrids.. But..With all the drastically different ways the RPG/FPS ish style game that have been made, I really think it could potentially have something really great come of it eventually.. If Fallout 3 is RPG/FPS, it probably won't be it, but it will probably still be pretty fun, at least for me :p I think we need to continue making these style of games until they develop into something even better than they have been, and then the storylines and open-ness, and amounts of different things available to do can be expanded.. We'll see.. I'll be happy either way.
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You do realize that first person perspective RPGs have been around since the 80s, right?
I've played quite a few.. I've been playing games for a long time, as I'm sure you have, so I know you can agree that there's nothing like Oblivion. Maybe certain components can be similar, like the massive scale of the game itself was done, and better, in Morrowind.. And the fact that you pick up items.. You click to swing a sword.. All that stuff.. It's definitely something completely different, now, if you can look at the 'group' of RPG FPS hybrids from the past and look at the number of them that are coming out now. Not only that, but nowadays, it seems to be a popular thing, rather than just some weird thing that RPG makers that weren't very popular made. Deus Ex, then Bloodlines played with it a little bit, but it didn't really spur anything.. There's so many coming out, now, I can see it becoming one of the larger genres, rather than it being a subcomponent of FPS (like Deus Ex was) or just some weird, unique, genre-less game (like Morrowind). And that Radiant AI overhyped BS stuff is pretty decent as well, it's just too bad it doesn't really work that well and purely scripting NPCs actually works better at this point.. I guess you could argue that all genres are going to become better as that's just how things are, and the masses will hopefully support developers more in getting them to make deeper stories.
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